Berks County native Taylor Swift, who was shut out at last year’s Academy of Country Music awards, got four nominations for this year’s -- including her second for Entertainer of the Year, artist and producer for Album of the Year and Top Female Vocalist.

But Swift’s nominations pale in comparison to Miranda Lambert, who received seven nominations, including her first for Entertainer of the Year, as well as Top Female Vocalist, which she won last year over Swift.

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Lambert also was nominated for Single Record of the Year and Song of the Year for ―”The House That Built Me” -- and got two nominations for Video of the Year for “Only Prettier” and “The House That Built Me.” She also was nominated for Vocal Event of the Year with Sheryl Crow and Loretta Lynn for “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”

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The nominations for the 46th annual awards were announced at a news conference Tuesday at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Blake Shelton and Reba McIntyre will host the awards, which will be broadcast live at 8 p.m. April 3 on CBS-TV.

Swift’s nominations were for her new album, “Speak Now.” She’s set to play a sold-out show at Philadelphia’s Lincoln financial Field on Aug. 6.

Kenny Chesney and Zac Brown Band got five nominations each, with Zac Brown getting four additional nods. Chesney and Brown will play together at Lincoln Financial Field on June 18.

The Band Perry also got four nominations, and the band’s Kimberly Perry also got an additional individual nomination as a composer for Song of the Year contender “If I Die Young.”

Lady Antebellum and Keith Urban, who both played Allentown Fair last year, and Easton Corbin, who it was just announced will play Penn’s Peak near Jim Thorpe, on June 2, got three nominations each, as did Lee Brice and Alan Jackson. Tickets to Corbin’s Penn’s Peak show, $20 in advance and $25 day of show, are on sale now to the venue’s Sneak Peak Club and go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. Friday.

Sugarland, who will play Allentown Fair on Sept. 2, got two nominations – for Top Vocal Duo and for Video of the Year for its “Stuck Like Glue.” Tickets for Sugarland’s fair show, at $59 and $39 , will go on sale to the public Feb. 12.

Sugarland also will headline the first-ever ACM Fan Jam, a fans-only live concert event taking place in Las Vegas during and after the 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards broadcast at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino. During the broadcast, Sugarland will perform from the event.

For the third year, fans will choose Entertainer of the Year and for the third year, the two newcomer categories for the annual Academy of Country Music Awards —Top New Solo Vocalist (Corbin’s among them, as is Randy Houser, played Allentown's Crocodile Rock Café in March) and Top New Vocal Duo or Group(which includes Steel Magnolia, who played Stroudsburg’s Sherman Theater in December) — will also be opened up to fan voting.

The winner in each of the two newcomer categories will then move on to compete for Top New Artist, which is also a fan voted category. Online voting for all fan voted categories will be available at www.voteACM.com.

The complete list of nominees follows:

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR

 Jason Aldean

 Toby Keith

 Miranda Lambert

 Brad Paisley

 Taylor Swift

 Keith Urban

TOP MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR

 Jason Aldean

 Brad Paisley

 Blake Shelton

 George Strait

 Keith Urban

TOP FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR

 Miranda Lambert

 Reba McEntire

 Taylor Swift

 Carrie Underwood

 Lee Ann Womack

TOP VOCAL DUO OF THE YEAR

 the JaneDear girls

 Joey + Rory

 Montgomery Gentry

 Steel Magnolia

 Sugarland

TOP VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR

 Lady Antebellum

 Little Big Town

 Randy Rogers Band

 The Band Perry

 Zac Brown Band

TOP NEW SOLO VOCALIST OF THE YEAR (Previously Announced)

 Eric Church

 Easton Corbin

 Randy Houser

TOP NEW VOCAL DUO or GROUP OF THE YEAR (Previously Announced)

 the JaneDear girls

 Steel Magnolia

 The Band Perry

ALBUM OF THE YEAR [Award to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company] (TIE)

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JOHN J. MOSER has been around long enough to have seen the original Ramones in a small club in New Jersey, U2 from the fourth row of a theater and Bob Dylan's born-again tours. But he also has the number for All-American Rejects' Nick Wheeler on his cell phone, wrote the first story ever done on Jack's Mannequin and hung out in Wiz Khalifa's hotel room.

OTHER CONTRIBUTORS

JODI DUCKETT: As The Morning Call's assistant features editor responsible for entertainment, she spends a lot of time surveying the music landscape and sizing up the Valley's festivals and club scene. She's no expert, but enjoys it all — especially artists who resonated in her younger years, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Tracy Chapman, Santana and Joni Mitchell.

KATHY LAUER-WILLIAMS enjoys all types of music, from roots rock and folk to classical and opera. Music has been a constant backdrop to her life since she first sat on the steps listening to her mother’s Broadway LPs when she was 2. Since becoming a mother herself, she has become well-versed on the growing genre of kindie rock and, with her son in tow, can boast she has seen a majority of the current kid’s performers from Dan Zanes to They Might Be Giants.

STEPHANIE SIGAFOOS: A Jersey native raised in Northeast PA, she was reared in a house littered with 8-tracks, 45s and cassette tapes of The Beatles, Elvis, Meatloaf and Billy Joel. She also grew up on the sounds of Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw and can be found traversing the countryside in search of the sounds of a steel guitar. A fan of today's 'new country,' she digs mainstream/country-pop crossovers like Lady Antebellum and Sugarland and other artists that illustrate the genre's diversity.